Word: moli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Civic REPERTORY THEATRE-Moliére, Goldoni, Tolstoy, Anet, Chekhov, Ibsen, Barrie, depending on the night...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...
...Large). In Prague, his home town, he is known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces Shakespeare, Byron, Moliére, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Hauptmann, and contemporary Czech plays. As a short-story writer, like Katherine Mansfield, like Anton Chekhov, Author Capek is fascinated by the drama of people's internal workings, but knows better than to try to explain them, leaves a large and readable